An article in TheWeek delineates how Japan, which has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, is facing an imminent population decline. The population in Japan reached a 2007 peak of 128 million, but it has been dropping
The highly-acclaimed and hugely popular FOX series 24 is returning to television with a 12-part series called 24: Live Another Day starting May 5. Kiefer Sutherland returns as Jack Bauer, the role he played from 2001 to 2010, accompanied by
According to TMZ, Kanye West, who is already facing assault charges for a scuffle at LAX with a photographer, assaulted an 18-year-old teenager who called him the N-word. Allegedly, West’s fiance Kim Kardashian was surrounded by photographers at a Beverly
The FBI will not file criminal charges against the IRS for targeting conservative groups, according to law enforcement officials. The official line is that the FBI didn’t find political bias or “enemy hunting” which would justify filing charges against the
Facing numerous allegations of sexual harassment from his staffers and demands from every area of New York’s state government including from Governor Andrew Cuomo that he step down, New York Democratic Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak resigned Sunday. Gabryszak (pictured), who is
Deadline.com is reporting that Quentin Tarantino’s next movie, a Western with the tentative title The Hateful Eight, is being shown to Christoph Walz, the dual Oscar-winning actor of Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, and 77-year-old Bruce Dern, whose name is
Now that tobacco has become a perennial target for health guardians and salt has followed, with the Consensus Action on Salt and Health fomenting a campaign to reduce salt intake, the latest target of the health guardians of the world
A new book jointly written by The Hill‘s Amie Parnes and Politico‘s Jonathan Allen, HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, details how the Hillary Clinton campaign composed a political hit list of those who had betrayed Clinton
A deadly pig-killing virus called porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PED, that has spread to farms in 22 states may have come from China, where an almost identical virus rampaged through the Chinese hog market in 2012. The virus arrived
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is bucking Barack Obama’s plans to table sanctions on Iran in the wake of the Geneva deal reached late last year. He is pushing fellow Democratic Senators to support sanctions on Iran. Schumer has been rumored
As unlikely as it may seem, a prime area for heroin users is now the sleepy state of Vermont. On Wednesday, Gov. Peter Shumlin’s entire State of the State address was devoted to what he called Vermont’s “full blown heroin
The seat of the label Prada is returning to Italy after evidence surfaced that the company transferred Prada Holding, the controlling shareholder of the house, to the Netherlands and Luxembourg to avoid paying taxes totaling roughly £390million, or $532 million.
Meryl Streep should have taken a cue from Abraham Lincoln’s famous admonition, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Streep, flaunting her highly suspect intellectual credentials but absolutely certain political
A dispute over health insurance “orphaned files” has erupted between insurance companies and the Obama Administration, with the insurers saying there is a major problem looming ahead while the feds say not to worry. Orphaned files occur when customers enroll
A debate is shaping up over a $40 million barrier system that would encircle the 16-acre World Trade Center site. The barrier would include static barriers and sally ports, where booths control barriers screening vehicles attempting entry. Residents of the area
On Thursday, the Democratic chairmen of the Senate Transportation and Energy committees, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pushed the Obama administration to take “prompt and decisive” action addressing the problem of oil train derailments. The senators wrote
A heroic 15-year-old Pakistani sacrificed his life to protect his classmates by tackling a terrorist bomber who was going to blow up his school. Aitzaz Hasan, from the Hangu region of northwest Pakistan, saw the terrorist approach the school with
You have to wonder about HBO. The network announced at Thursday’s Television Critics Association press tour that it has already ordered a fourth season of the raunch-fest show Girls even before the third season has aired. The season two finale
In a series of tweets, Iraq War veteran J.R. Salzman, who lost an arm in the war, told a moving story Wednesday about a cab ride from the Dallas airport to his hotel in the taxi of a Kurdish refugee from
Saturday Night Live, the NBC show famous for lampooning conservatives for their narrowmindedness, has addressed its own lack of diversity and hired two black women, LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones, to its writing staff. The Hollywood Reporter said that the two
Sen. Tom Coburn, 65, the fiery, conservative Oklahoma Republican who is well-known for pushing socially conservative measures such as anti-abortion bills and defending gun rights and the death penalty, is fighting prostate cancer and might not serve out his term.
The New York Times, ever eager to push any meme that undermines the Judeo-Christian devotion to traditional morality and the single heterosexual family unit, has progressed from championing LGBT rights to its newest passion: polygamy. The Times is not alone;
Barack Obama, shifting the American public’s focus away from Obamacare toward a debate on income inequality, is launching his Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program titled “Promise Zones,” which entails using government largess to give tax incentives and grants to
The United States Navy, trying to sidetrack an investigation into the September Navy Yard shooting by an NBC reporter, mistakenly sent him a copy of a memo delineating how the Navy would deter his requests for information using the Freedom
Now that ObamaCare is under attack from all sides, the state of Vermont is getting some love from the left because it is considering an even more insidious healthcare alternative to ObamaCare: a “single-payer” system called Green Mountain Care. The
